This is the second Watsonian catalogue that we have listed, the other one being for Watsonian 1926. With their motto being For Pleasure, Speed, & Commerce The Watsonian Folding Sidecar Co, of Birmingham were set to deliver. Sidecars were still a new concept in 1916 but manufacturers were going all out to provide a full […]
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By 1938 James Motorcycles were producing only 5 models, all powered by the popular Villiers 2 stroke engine and using Albion gearboxes. This small 8 page catalogue was printed for the main New Zealand importer Skeates & White of Auckland, but in the back of it Skeates have listed 56 James Representatives throughout NZ that
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This is the third piston catalogue that we have put up on Barnstormers, the other two being a 1938 BRICOVMO and a 1963 Hepolite. We still have a 1948 Hepolite catalogue to scan and format sometime in the future. This catalogue is quite unique in that Fisher were a New Zealand manufacturer from Wellington. We
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Harley Davidson advertised their motorcycles as the Worlds Most Popular Motorcycle and trying to keep ahead of other manufacturers meant that 1948 was going to be quite an important year for some of their models. It was the last year of the springer front suspension that had reigned supreme on the Big Twin for over
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Watsonian would be the longest sidecar manufacturer to date. They have a proud history of over 108 years production, with manufacturing first starting in 1912. Changing times and advances in motorcycles would have necessitated constant changes and up grades to models offered, but when one looks at sidecars in general a sidecar is just a
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